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  1. Frank Romer Pierson (May 12, 1925 – July 22, 2012) was an American screenwriter and film director. Life and career. Pierson was born in Chappaqua, New York, the ...

  2. Jul 25, 2012 · Frank Romer Pierson was born in Chappaqua, N.Y., on May 12, 1925. When he was 18, his mother, Louise Randall Pierson, wrote a best-selling book based on their family life, “Roughly Speaking ...

  3. Jul 24, 2012 · 24 July 2012. Pierson penned the famous line 'Attica!' in Dog Day Afternoon. Frank Pierson, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of the 1975 Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon, has died aged 87. His ...

  4. Frank Romer Pierson, screenwriter, director and producer: born Chappaqua, New York 12 May 1925; married 1948 Polly Stokes (marriage dissolved; one son, one daughter), 1978 Dori Derfner (marriage ...

  5. Jul 23, 2012 · Frank Pierson, Former Movie Academy President, Writer and Director, Dies at 87. UPDATED: The Oscar winner for "Dog Day Afternoon" served as head of AMPAS from 2001-05.

  6. Awards. Academy Award (1975) Frank Romer Pierson (May 12, 1925 – July 22, 2012) was an American movie director, movie producer, and screenwriter. He was known for his works in Dog Day Afternoon, Cool Hand Luke, A Star is Born, Soldier's Girl, and King of Gypsies. He won an Academy Award in 1975. He was born on May 12, 1925 in Chappaqua, New ...

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  8. Jul 24, 2012 · Frank Pierson dies at 87; Oscar-winning screenwriter. The onetime headmistress of an elite girls’ school fatally shot Dr. Herman Tarnower, her lover and the creator of the famous “Scarsdale ...

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